Feasibility evaluation for solar industrial process heat applications

摘要: An analytical method for assessing the feasibility of Solar Industrial Process Heat applications has been developed and implemented in a flexible, fast-calculating computer code - PROSYS/ECONMAT. The performance model PROSYS predicts long-term annual energy output several collector types, including flat-plate, nontracking concentrator, one-axis tracking two-axis concentrator. equipment cost estimates, capacity cost, optional net present worth analysis are provided by ECONMAT. User input consists detailed industrial process information economic parameters. Internal program data includes meteorological 248 US sites, characteristics more than 20 commercially available collectors representing generic defaults Because fullscale conventional back-up fuel system is assumed, storage not essential included model.